They compare themselves to Romeo and Juliet. But federal court officials were apparently more concerned about a Bonnie-and-Clyde-type union when they forbade Gregory Smith and Karen McGauley from fraternizing. Yet love did prevail.
And yesterday, Chief US District Judge William G. Young faced the dilemma of how to punish Smith, a convicted drug dealer who had violated the conditions of his probation by not only associating with McGauley, another convicted felon, but marrying her. "The relationship escalated to where there was no going back," said Smith, 43, recounting in court how he'd met McGauley at a halfway house while both were wrapping up their federal sentences. McGauley, a Harvard University graduate, had spent eight years in prison for selling ecstasy and OxyContin and had served two years for fraud.
Details here from The Boston Globe via LexisOne.com.